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Microsurgery
for Malignant Gliomas
M. Gazi Yaşargil,
Paulo A.S. Kadri, Dianne C.H. Yaşargil
Department of Neurological Surgery,
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Reflections
directly involving the ongoing, intense research activities in
biology, the neurosciences and in neurosurgery are discussed including
the evolving diagnostic and treatment modalities of primary and
secondary malignant gliomas of the central nervous system .
The etiology of this enigmatic disease remains obscure, and a curative
therapy is still not available.
Nevertheless, as a result of changing paradigms in neuroanatomy,
neuropathology, neurophysiology, neuroradiology and in neurosurgery,
and taking into account the broader selection of adjuvant therapies
available, well circumscribed malignant gliomas, which are in
predilected compartments of the brain, can be efficiently resected
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Good life quality and a respectable survival time are achieved in the
majority of patients.
Keywords: astrocytoma,
brain neoplasms, extent of resection, glioblastoma, glioma,
microsurgery, oligodendroglioma
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2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
All rights reserved
Source: http://ipsapp007.kluweronline.com/IPS/content/ext/x/J/5042/I/124/A/5/abstract.htm
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